Social Insurance :

Staff

The activities of the PL are carried out under the responsibility of Dr Gérard Niveau, Psychiatrist, Senior physician, Agrégé. The staff consists of several psychiatrists and secretaries.

The Forensic Psychiatry unit conducts most of the criminal evaluations that are assigned to it. It delegates and supervises certain civil or insurance-related assignments in collaboration with other services: the Adult Psychiatry Service of the Department of Psychiatry of Geneva University Hospital (HUG), the Child and Juvenile Psychiatry Service of the HUG and the Medical Teaching Service of the Office of Young People.

The Forensic Psychiatry unit conducts from 180 to 200 expert evaluations every year.

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching on topics such as the capacity of discernment, the deprivation of liberty for purposes of assistance, guardianship.